Side-channel attacks have become a severe threat to the confidentiality of computer
applications and systems. One popular type of such attacks is the microarchitectural attack …

Side-channel attacks are easy-to-implement whilst powerful attacks against cryptographic
implementations, and their targets range from primitives, protocols, modules, and devices to …

Traditional health-care systems suffer from new challenges associated with the constant
increase in the number of patients. In order to address this issue, and to increase the …

We present BranchScope-a new side-channel attack where the attacker infers the direction
of an arbitrary conditional branch instruction in a victim program by manipulating the shared …

Cryptosystem designers frequently assume that secrets will be manipulated in closed,
reliable computing environments. Unfortunately, actual computers and microchips leak …

Background Elliptic curve cryptographic schemes were proposed independently in 1985 by
Neal Koblitz (Koblitz 1987) and Victor Miller (Miller 1986). They are the elliptic curve …

This paper examines how monitoring power consumption signals might breach smart-card
security. Both simple power analysis and differential power analysis attacks are investigated …

Timing attacks are usually used to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We
show that timing attacks apply to general software systems. Specifically, we devise a timing …

The power consumed by a circuit varies according to the activity of its individual transistors
and other components. As a result, measurements of the power used by actual computers or …

This paper presents actual results from monitoring smartcard power signals and introduces
techniques that help maximize such side-channel information. Adversaries will obviously …